A machine learning analysis of 50,000 privacy policy texts shows they have ballooned to an average of over 4000 words since 1996 – and one researcher says they are “fundamentally broken”
Privacy policies have become longer and less readable, and require more access to user data for the organisations that write them, an analysis of 25 years of documents shows.
at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, gathered 50,000 privacy policy texts by trawling some of the most visited websites in the world for their privacy policies. She also delved into their history dating back to 1996 using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which hosts historical versions of web pages.
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